Survey of the Support for HTTPS in the Electronic Stores of Bulgarian Small and Middle-Sized Enterprises

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Keywords
HTTPS, electronic stores, penetration testing, cryptography

Summary
This article presents an empirical survey, conducted in May 2016 and again in January 2017 with the help of software for automated penetration testing. The survey encompasses fixed set of 480 electronic stores, belonging to small and middle-sized enterprises in Bulgaria. The goal of the survey is to determine to what extent such enterprises manage to deploy HTTPS correctly in defense of their electronic transactions. The survey is conducted twice in a 6 month period with aim to obtain information how and to what extent the small and medium-sized enterprises in Bulgaria are adapting to the sharply rising requirements for information security in Internet.

JEL: C88, C89
Pages: 12
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